Enrico Moretti, University of California Berkeley, visiting Cowles, “Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push: One Hundred Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority”

Anders Björklund, Stockholm University, ”Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968” (with Markus Jäntto and Matthew J. Lindquist) [Paper]

Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and Jeff Kling, Princeton University, Special Session on What We Have Learned from the Move to Opportunity Program (a HUD initiative that enabled inner-city poor to move to more affluent areas in a randomized experiment to assess the impact of living in a lower-crime area with better schools)
Joint with Law, Economics and Organization Workshop

Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and Melissa Schettini Kearney, Brookings Institution, “The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation” [Paper]

Feb. 24

Dan Silverman, University of Michigan, “Consumption and Retirement: Evaluating Social Security Reform with a Life-Cycle Model” (with John Laitner) [Paper]

Mar. 3

Melissa Kearney, The Brookings Institution, “The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation” (with Mark Duggan) [Paper]